The basic building blocks of communication are signals, assembled in various sequences
and combinations, and used in virtually all inter-and intra-specific interactions. While signal …

Morphological skin colour change in fish is often referred to in the sole context of
background adaptation. It is becoming increasingly apparent that it is a broad phenomenon …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Gull chicks beg for food from their parents. Peacocks spread their tails to attract potential
mates. Meerkats alert family members of the approach of predators. But are these--and other …

This book celebrates the guppy's unique contribution to evolutionary ecology. Ever since
Caryl Haskins described guppy populations as a'natural experiment'because of the way …

Avian plumage colors have emerged recently as model systems for investigating the types of
information that can be signaled by showy sexual displays in animals. In many species, the …

Many of the colour displays of animals are proposed to have evolved in response to female
mate choice for honest signals of quality, but such honest signalling requires mechanisms to …

Although conspicuous visual sexual signals, such as bright colors, in males serve to attract
females in numerous species, they may also attract the attention of potential predators and …

Carotenoid-based sexual traits are thought to be reliable indicators of male quality because
they might be scarce and therefore might indicate the ability of males to gather high-quality …

Speciation by divergent natural selection is well supported. However, the role of sexual
selection in speciation is less well understood due to disagreement about whether sexual …